Distributive property

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Distributive Property:



Steps:


1. Distribute the numbers outside of the parenthesis to the numbers inside the parenthesis.
2. Solve the rest of the equation by addition/subtraction/multiplication/division of the numbers.



Example 1:

3 (5+2)=?
3*5=15
3*2=6
15+6=21

Example 2:
2(87*5)
87*2=174
5*2=10
174*10=1,740